bug#2057: 23.0.60; delete key and deletechar

[Robert Brown]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I start Emacs 23.0.60.2 on Ubuntu 8.10 inside a gnome-terminal emulation
window using the command "emacs -q -nw".  The backspace key on my keyboard is
set up to generate ASCII code 127, but Emacs incorrectly maps this code to
deletechar with input-decode-map which is:

    (keymap (127 . [deletechar]) (27 keymap (79 keymap (83 . ....

I believe this input translation is set up by term_get_fkeys_1 in term.c when
it looks at the termcap/terminfo function key definitions for my terminal
type, xterm-color, and sees that the termcap description contains:

    kD=\177

which means that the delete *function* key produces ASCII code 127.

Emacs should look at both kD and kb.  If they are the same ASCII character,
then Emacs should not install a translation in input-decode-map for delete.


If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/local/software/package/emacs-23.0.60.2/share/emacs/23.0.60/etc/DEBUG
for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2009-01-18 on ugg
configured using `configure  '--without-x'
'--prefix=/local/software/package/emacs-23.0.60.2''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: C
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Info

Minor modes in effect:
  savehist-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
ESC [ > 1 ; 1 7 0 4 ; 0 c C-h i m e m a c s RET C-s
b u g SPC C-a C-n C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f RET SPC SPC
ESC x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g RET

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